T-Mobile to Add Own Channel, Carrier Billing to Android Market
T-Mobile is serious about Android, and is making necessary investments to ensure everyone benefits from it. Announced today, the 4th largest carrier in the US will be adding a couple new features to Android Market on its own handsets.
In time for Thanksgiving, the company will be offering its own T-Mobile channel within the Android Market, [...]
Samsung Jack Gets Dressed up in WM 6.5
Samsung announced this morning that one of its existing smartphones will be getting a tuneup. If you own a Samsung Jack you will now be able to upgrade your phone to Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard.
To be honest, we weren’t expecting to see the Jack to be one of the first 6.1 phones pushed through to [...]
Want a Droid on Verizon? There’s an ETF Hike For That
In (presumably) an effort to discourage potential Droid-flippers from just purchasing the phone on contract only to cancel that contract and sell the phone online, Verizon has been planning to double the cancellation fee on “advanced devices”.
That’s right — for advanced phones such as the Droid and similar smartphones, the Early Termination Fee will begin [...]
Blacksn0w unlock for iPhone 3G and 3GS available for download
Remember yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G soft unlock app launched in January this year?
Well, now we have blacksn0w too, which can unlock both the iPhone 3G and the new iPhone 3GS, via either Windows or Mac.
The blacksn0w unlock app is free and requires iPhone OS 3.1, as well as baseband 05.11.07. To download the application, visit [...]
Google Hard at Work on Android 2.1
I personally love to see a tech company always a step or two ahead of itself. Google is rumored to be in such a position, currently hard at work at version 2.1 of its Android mobile OS even though version 2.0 won’t officially be out until Friday.
It really shouldn’t be a surprise to too many [...]
Haven’t Found E.T. Yet? Blame Mobile Phones
Nature’s calling us, and we can’t even hear it. Why not? Because there’s a map for that.
The U.S. National Research Council (NRC) recently published a report which claims there are some natural signals, such as radio emissions from space and natural earth phenomena, are being impeded by consumer gadgets such as cell phones and other [...]
Study Shows Touchscreen Adoption Growing at Exponential Rate in USA
Think back to last year’s holiday season. Does it seem as though there are several more touchscreen phones available or announced this year than there were last year?
It’s not an illusion; according to comScore there are 24 million touchscreen devices in use within the United States, a 159 percent growth year-over-year from last year at [...]
Opera Mobile 10 launched for Symbian S60 (touch and non-touch)
Opera announced the availability of Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian S60 phones from Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
Opera Mobile 10 beta works with Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition, so it can be installed on both touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones.
The new version of Opera Mobile has a fresh design, it’s twice as fast as [...]
Google Search by voice available for S60, in Chinese too
Google announced that the Google Search by voice feature is now available for Nokia’s Symbian S60 handsets. Integrated into the latest version of Google Mobile App, the feature lets you search for almost anything (from “restaurants” to “movie times” and so on) without having to type your queries.
Of course, if you prefer not to search [...]
Nokia will say goodbye to N-Gage in 2010
Launched in the first half of 2008, Nokia’s N-Gage mobile gaming platform will end its life sooner than everyone has probably thought. Nokia has just announced that N-Gage.com and the N-Gage Arena will stop being operational after 2010, while N-Gage games will be available for purchase until September 2010 only.
The reason for all this is [...]